A registered sex offender was arrested Tuesday after he was accused of following women around a Hobby Lobby in East Haven while allegedly touching himself, police said.

Officers were dispatched to Hobby Lobby at 68 E. Frontage Road on Tuesday after receiving a complaint of a man who was allegedly “engaging in lewd behavior” inside the store, according to Capt. Joseph M. Murgo of the East Haven Police Department.

Witnesses alleged that a man was following women around the store while appearing to touch himself underneath his clothing, Murgo said.

According to Murgo, video evidence provided to officers supported witness accounts.

The man, later identified as 34-year-old Dylan Alexander Derosa of New Haven, was located at his job in the same plaza as the Hobby Lobby, Murgo said. He was ta

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